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Hmmm, looks like the OP has both; the topic title being "The good Thief", while the original post asks "Was the penitent thief doing a good work, a work of mercy - so to speak - when he defended the Lord Jesus while Jesus was suffering?"

What is a "good work"?

And one of those robbers who were hanged blasphemed him, saying: If thou be Christ, save thyself and us. But the other answering, rebuked him, saying: Neither dost thou fear God, seeing; thou art under the same condemnation? And we indeed justly: for we receive the due reward of our deeds. But...

In the other place, much despised by some here, I've watched some of a debate about baptism and it is interesting how worked up folk get on the doctrine.

I like Chinese :)

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It's been a long time since any posted in here.

All good gifts come from above, says the scripture, meaning, I think, that all good gifts come from God. So, the question is, "is faith a gift? Or is faith a work of the mind and soul of the person exercising it?" Of course, one can argue that faith is both, and that would be true.

Hand sanitiser on a paper towel.

No. Amazon has enough "personal data' already.

I am impressed by its antiquity! :)

transfer them to other duties; my bible bot maybe. It would profit by running on my current PC - a very fast PC with 32 GB RAM. This is the current MiniPC

The last time was about a year ago.

The new one has an AMD processor, 64 GB RAM, 1 TB SSD and a bunch of other stuff. Processor AMD Ryzen™ 9 7940HS Processor, 8 Cores/16 Threads (16M Cache, up to 5.2 GHz) Graphics AMD Radeon™ 780M (Graphics Frequency 2800MHz) Memory DDR5 Dual channel (SODIMM Slots×2, Up to 5600MHz, Max 64GB)...

Yes, indeed; what greater gift to Blessed Many than to have millions of faithful children? And how can she not be a celebrity when her son is God?

What greater pleasure could the mother of our Lord have than to pray for her many adopted sons and daughters?

Why is it that your closing statement looks a tad tricky?

Shhhhh.... you're not supposed to state the obvious flaw in the "explanations" of "Catholic teaching" that our learned contributors make!! :p

I like Blessed Mary; she is lovely as a prayer partner.

You're asking folk who have demonstrated that they do not grasp what the Catholic Church teaches so you're going to get answers that reflect only what the responders imagine that the Catholic Church teaches.